Une image semblable à sa mère: La Vierge et Jésus

Abstract

The interdiction to represent what is at the heart of Islam gives birth to a considerable work dealing with its image. The author of this article deals with the question concerning the image of islam in a comparative study of islam and christianity using the example of the virgin Mary and the birth of Jesus Christ. The later is analysed under a christian perspective, which presents him as the most pure image of the holy father. Ibn Arabi, however, breaks with this christian scholasticism, focusing only on the body as well as with the aristotelian philosophy concerning the question of the similarity of this model. For Ibn Arabi, the son is the image of his mother without limiting the power of the former. Holy Mary's body represents one changed and reflecting her power. It is, at this point, the above-presented image, is rehabilitated by breaking with the classical theological interpretation of the female and material in relation to its image as well as in what we call, according to Sigmund Freud: construction in analysis.